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Re: Santa Maria Valley 100 has a new home... Oh Nancy, do you have permission to call yourself "Chucky baby"?
Author: BOB2
Date: 06-26-2022 - 10:13
Re: Santa Maria Valley 100 has a new home
Author: Charles (Chucky Baby) McCormick
Date: 06-26-2022 - 09:38
But BOB2 inspected the Kepner collection at Merrill and said they were all scrap! You could not talk him out of his conviction! What’s up!
Oh Nancy, does using other folks handles get you off?
So, Nancy, how mnay times have you actually been up to Merrill to actually see this splendid well preserved rail "collection"?
Some stuff like the Sierra seemed to still be "potentially" recoverable, and some of the stuff was not a total wreck, plenty of parts that could be recovered, too. But yeah, I've got a friend up in Merrill, so I've been to see and cry over this "collection" several times.
After nearly 40 years rusting away, much of it was reduced to junk.
I'm glad to here that someone got a tender, use unknown. But they didn't want the engine, Not surprising by the disparate state of what was up there. Sad but true, but probably sound thinking on the buyers part...
Welcome to how a "hoarder" collection, kept with a good intention, but with poor with poor storage and care, and now much of it in pretty rough shape, is finally being auctioned off...
But what do I really know, right? I've only spent 54 years of ny career being paid to do some of this silly train stuff, so I'm probably not really nearly as qualified as a mentally ill repressed perverted troll with mulitple personality disorder on a train site to judge this sort of thing, right...?
Author: Charles (Chucky Baby) McCormick
Date: 06-26-2022 - 09:38
But BOB2 inspected the Kepner collection at Merrill and said they were all scrap! You could not talk him out of his conviction! What’s up!
Oh Nancy, does using other folks handles get you off?
So, Nancy, how mnay times have you actually been up to Merrill to actually see this splendid well preserved rail "collection"?
Some stuff like the Sierra seemed to still be "potentially" recoverable, and some of the stuff was not a total wreck, plenty of parts that could be recovered, too. But yeah, I've got a friend up in Merrill, so I've been to see and cry over this "collection" several times.
After nearly 40 years rusting away, much of it was reduced to junk.
I'm glad to here that someone got a tender, use unknown. But they didn't want the engine, Not surprising by the disparate state of what was up there. Sad but true, but probably sound thinking on the buyers part...
Welcome to how a "hoarder" collection, kept with a good intention, but with poor with poor storage and care, and now much of it in pretty rough shape, is finally being auctioned off...
But what do I really know, right? I've only spent 54 years of ny career being paid to do some of this silly train stuff, so I'm probably not really nearly as qualified as a mentally ill repressed perverted troll with mulitple personality disorder on a train site to judge this sort of thing, right...?
